Rise and Shine

How about some yummy muffins to get your Monday started off right. These aren’t just morning muffins though – filled with lots of melty, chocolatey goodness – they’re great any time of the day.

I’ve been going through my pantry the last few weeks trying to use up some supplies that didn’t get any attention while I wasn’t feeling well earlier this year. Oreos for cupcakes, three whole bags of chips for these cookies and now some chunks for muffins. For chunky muffins. And I still have several more bars and blocks of chocolate to go through before they expire much more than they are right now.

Not that it would really stop me from using them, but I want to use them before my stash gets out of control. Because I always seem to pick up more thinking I don’t have enough at home. Then they stack up. Although I don’t keep track, I usually have every type of morsel except the kind I want that day. If I need peanut butter, I have butterscotch. If I need dark, I have milk, but luckily today I had chunky.

Good, because I wanted some muffins filled with chunks of chocolate.

These are so simple to throw together. Stir flour, sugar, baking powder and salt together.

These look absolutely wonderful!!! I think I may have to start my day tomorrow out with these – I know my kiddo will LOVE them. And maybe it will put me in the right mood to bake up a whole mess of cookies. I’ve been promising them to my deployed hubby for a month now, and I haven’t motivated myself to make any. These look like motivating muffins, though!!! Thanks!!!

These look so yummy! My dad made some crazy muffins once that were bran muffins, with shredded carrots and chocolate chips in them! Bran & carrots made them healthy(ish) and the chocolate made them delicious!

These look so yummy! I love muffins…all muffins. I never knew (until this last Monday) that I like lemon poppyseed muffins. But my super favorites will always be corn muffins…warm with butter of course.

These muffins look great! For me, muffins are the foolproof answer when I need to get some sort of cake done. Besides the classics blueberry, banana chocolate and apple cinnamon, I love carrot muffins. It’s like carrot cake but small and without raisins. I also do savoury muffins; recently I discovered shiitake rice muffins that worked out very well.

Oh.my.GOODNESS. I literally just popped these into the oven and if the muffins taste half as amazing as the batter does, I’m sold! It almost tastes like the cheesecake that I make. These were SO easy to throw together and the batter is smooth and creamy. I can’t wait for the next 18 minutes to go by!

I usually live for a really good blueberry muffin, you know the type w/a lovely lemon sugar topping!! UGH to die for! But these? I will be hunting those chocolate chunks ASAP! I have been usually keeping up w/all your latest post and these no doubt will be waiting for long to be made in this house.

I just popped these out of the oven and Oh.my.amazing. This batter rocks, the muffins are light and creamy and just wonderful. I think it has now become my ‘staple’ muffin recipe. I can’t wait to try this w/other additions!

These look like they could well be my favourite muffin! But at the moment the more chocolate the better in my muffins, i want to feel like one big chocolatey blob afterwards :) This looks like a wonderful recipe, i dont make muffins much/ever so would love to give these a shot! :)

as a birthday present for a roommate one year, a friend and i baked 16 dozen mini muffins and then handed them out to everyone we knew (friends, family, professors, co-workers…seriously everyone we knew). they spent the day giving them to her as a gift for her birthday. she came back home with a massive basket of muffins. (i conveniently forgot that we would have to eat those 16 dozen muffins!) turned out to be a fun memory though.

These look so perfect! My husband is slightly obsessed with muffins. He can say no to cupcakes and ice cream all day long (how?! I have no clue!), but if I make a batch of muffins he can’t keep his hands off of them! I’ve made so many varieties but I think my favorite is probably pumpkin chocolate chip or banana cream cheese with crumb topping! I can’t wait to try this recipe next!

I laughed when you mentioned your stash and never having what you need although you have lots. I too just buy stuff when I see it on sale…like Andes mint chips for $.79 @ Target… then every so often go through the stash to organize and use what is older. It always amazes me that I have so much. I have vowed to use things up before I buy anything more…made double dark chocolate chip cookes yesterday during Hurricane Irene. I think I might be trying your recipe next…so thanks!!
Hope you are doing well, Angie

My favorite muffins are probably corn muffins. Those are the muffins I buy if I’m out getting a muffin.

What I want to know is how do you fill your muffin cups so perfectly. My last batch of cupcakes the liners pleated in, so I had areas where the paper was almost completely inside the cupcake. So sad, and much harder to eat neatly.

YUM! So happy to see that you’re doing better! :) My favorite muffin is definitely chocolate chocolate chip (my sister in law claims that it is not a muffin if it’s chocolate, but what does she know!), followed very closely by pumpkin.

Cappucino muffins are my favorite . . .haven’t been able to find or create a really good recipe yet. A (former) local coffee shop had them and I wish I would have asked for the recipe before they went belly-up :(

Those are gorgeous and look delicious…LOVE the tulip wrappers! For sentimental reasons, my favourite muffin would have to be blueberry, but dipped in melted butter and sugar, like my mom did when I was little. :)

this looks yummy. I never baked muffin with chocolate. To me, muffin is for breakfast, and breakfast doestn’ incld. chocolate, but this looks absolutely delicious!! I’m saving this recipe, and plan to bake it this coming week!! Yesterday morning, I baked 3 chocolate chip cookies you posted here, with white chocolate chip & butter scotch!! They are yummy!! Thank you~~

Oh my goodness, I want to nom on those right now. My favorite muffin ever is actually a bran muffin–specifically the honey bran muffins from The Kettle (thekettle.net) in Manhattan Beach, Calif. All of their muffins are huge and delicious, but the honey bran makes my heart sing (the blueberry crumb muffins are some of the best blueberry muffins I’ve had, too). I strongly recommend it if you ever make your way out there!

I am so excited about these! I cannot have trans fats, and so I am excited these are something I can make from scratch with real ingredients. I would love a good made from scratch cake ball recipe so I could try those too! =)